Event Comment: Tickets deliver'd out by
Mr Davis will be taken. [
Bransby doubled in
Oxford and
Tyrrel. The
General Advertiser quoted a long Epilogue on the Birthday of his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cumberland Written by the
Farmer (who had taken over the role of
Swift's Drapier) and spoken by
Garrick in
Dublin. It also quoted the following long puff for
Ray's Benefit to come]:
Sir, As long acquaintance best entitles us to friendly good natured offices, and as no more proper time can be found to confer them than when the person is in the Decline of life, give me leave to recommend (thro' your means) Mr Ray of
Drury Lane Theatre, the oldest actor now belonging to that House, to the Favour of the Town, at his ensuing Benefit next Saturday. A person who once agreeably entertained the Public, should always feel the warmth of their Indulgence, tho' the Infirmities of Old age may have render'd him less pleasing than formerly. This Application is therefore meant to those friends of his, whom Distance of time, and change of Situation may have made it impossible any other way to acquaint them, that
The Merchant of Venice is to be acted for his Benefit on Saturday next; therefore 'tis hoped they will be so kind as to send for his Tickets to
Mr Hobson, in the Playhouse Passage, or to Mr
Ray's lodgings, the second Door in
Queen's Court,
Great Queen St.,
Lincoln's Inn Fields, and the Favour will ever be greatly acknowledged by him